As ye Sow so shall ye Reap

Bhagavad Gita says: "Whatever we do, we will have to pay accordingly"

There is an interesting story in the Indian epic, the Mahabharata, of a powerful King Dhirthrashtra who was born blind. He was a wise, intelligent and a religious king.

It bothered him a lot, he wanted to know the reason he was born blind. One day, he had the opportunity to meet Lord Krishna.

The King told Lord Krishna that thru his own spiritual powers he had checked his 100 previous lifetimes but still could not find out why he was born blind.

Lord Krishna touched the King's head with his hand and King Dhirthrashtra was then able to see behind 106 lifetimes. The King saw himself as a child playing in the lawn. He saw a little bug, and not knowing any better, he pierced the bug's eyes with a small piece of stick.

The king paid for his action 106 lifetimes later.

There is no escape from the Law of Karma.

We hide ourselves behind closed doors, in the dark, but we only deceive ourselves if we think no one is watching.

God is always watching our every thought and action.

This story illustrates the eternal truth that 'whatever we sow, we shall reap'.

Who is Good, Who is Evil ?

First, God created the Light; then by His Creative Power, He made all mortal beings.

From the One Light, the entire universe welled up.

All human beings are part of His creation.

That one Light is in everyone, so who is good, and who is evil?

The Creation is in the Creator, and the Creator is in the Creation, totally pervading and permeating all places.

The clay is the same, but the Fashioner has fashioned it in various ways.

There is nothing wrong with the pot of clay - there is nothing wrong with the Potter.

The One True Lord abides in all; by His making, everything is made.

Whoever realizes the Will of His Command, knows the One Lord. Only such a person can be called the Lord's true devotee.

Source: Saint Kabir (SGGS pages 1349-1350)

The Face of Death

The picture depicts a famine stricken child crawling towards an United Nations food camp, located a kilometer away. The vulture is waiting for the child to die so that it can eat it. This picture shocked the entire world. No one knows what happened to the child, including the photographer Kevin Carter, who left the place as soon as the photograph was taken.

Meet Your Meat

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We Are What We Eat

What we eat and drink has tremendous effect on our body, mind and intellect.

For example, consumption of food such as meat, eggs, fish (ie flesh of animals) and intoxicants such as alcohol and drugs are generally very pleasing to an outgoing mind indulged in material life.

All of these lead to the material contamination of our mind.

The seed of bad habits : illicit sex, gambling, stealing, dishonesty, etc then begin to germinate.

As the saying goes: "We are what we eat"!

Conversely, the same diet has no appeal to a sincere Spiritual aspirant.

Thus, diet is a function of an individual's choice based upon his goal in life.

Do we want to become God conscious and go back to our Source, the Creator ?

Or do we want to merely continue to live a nonsensical life?

God has given us the free will to choose between these two.

No two ways about it!

Suffering

"Unto whom should I tie up and give the bundle of my pains? The whole world is overflowing with pain and suffering ;who can know the state of my inner self?" (p767)

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"Wherever I look, I see loads of pain and suffering." (p710)

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Suffering is universal - it is an ingredient of life which is seen throughout this entire creation.

One may think he alone is the victim of suffering, but when we look around, we find sorrow in every home.

We are all lost in love and attachment to this material world. No one seems happy. In fact every one is beset with one's woes.

Even the President of a mighty nation is not happy.

Across the entire globe, pain and suffering are a major part of life.

All of us who have to traverse through this human existence will have to endure suffering - some to a lesser and others to a greater extent.

Source: From the holy scriptures of the Sri Granth Sahib

The Bare Fact of this Life...

This world will always remain a place of suffering and misery, and will never become a paradise.

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Life in this world is made up of both joys and sorrows. Therefore spiritual masters or saints tell us to get liberation from this world of births and deaths,

of joys and sorrows, once and for all.

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We can only achieve this goal while in this human body. We do not have the opportunity of having this human body in every birth.

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It is a very rare and precious gift bestowed to us by the Creator.

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We must not waste this opportunity upon the perishable things and objects of this world.

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Our aim or objective in life ought to be the achievement of God Realization.

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If we do not find a way to achieve this, then we have thus wasted this human life which the Lord has blessed us with.

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